Qinzhou (later Qin County).

Erlang Mountain Dazhai.

Erlang Mountain is a mountain peak in the south of Qinzhou, which was originally a cottage of a group of local thieves in Shanxi, but now it has been turned into a camp by Zijin Liang, the 36 big leaders of northern Shaanxi who came from Yan'an Mansion.

Similar to what Li Xin and Long Shisan thought, when Luo Rucai and Zhang Xianzhong proposed to go south to Xiangyuan County, and then enter the Great Plain of Hebei through Fukou, even if King Zijin Liang's qualifications were mediocre, he would not immediately agree to them.

If there are too many such things, then his position as the big leader will not be guaranteed.

It's as simple as that, this is the current Wang Ziyong, and later Gao Yingxiang's thoughts, if any big boss except for Zhang Xianzhong, Li Zicheng, and Luo Rucai is the big leader, he will consider it like this.

It's a bit too much to think of them as real "heroes", and they're just slightly better bandits now.

Of course, people like Bu Mud, Zijin Liang, Scorpion Block, Chuang Wang and others are definitely not from ordinary farmers, otherwise they would not be able to sit in this position.

These four people, without exception, are all people who can sell illicit salt and horses in and out of the border in and out of northern Shaanxi, and such people are all fierce people who always pin their heads to their belts, but even so, their knowledge cannot reach the same height as Long Thirteen and Li Xin.

Therefore, Zijin Liang naturally made the choice of dividing his troops.

In the past, when selling illicit salt and horses at the border, Gao Yingxiang was undoubtedly their leader, so Wang Ziyong asked him to lead the team, with his eleven families (there were originally fourteen, among which Zhang Miaoshou, Yingshanhong, and Bai Jiu'er were used as cannon fodder and took refuge in Long Thirteen) and Zhang Xianzhong, Li Zicheng, Gao Jie, Zhang Tianlin, Luo Rucai, a total of sixteen families marched south, preparing to enter Xiangyuan County and then enter Hebei.

And Zijin Liang himself and Zhang Mengcun led the seventeen families to prepare to enter the Fenhe River valley again through Qinyuan County.

Zhao Sheng, the former master of the Dragon Thirteen, was also among them.

The blessing of Tuolong Thirteen, who had died in battle at this time, was still alive and well.

After learning about Long Thirteen's situation, the mood of lighting the lamp and his subordinate Hui Deng was naturally extremely complicated, however, Zhao Sheng was an old boy in Qingjian County, and he had also read several books on mountain and river geography, so he knew that the risk of going south was too great, although there was an "embarrassing" scene of meeting Long Thirteen again, but he still decided to follow Zijin Liang.

Right now, not long after Gao Yingxiang and the others left, Zijin Liang Wang used it for his own use, Zhang Mengcun who didn't touch the mud, Zhao Sheng, who lit the lamp, and Tuoyangkun who made a scorpion block, were still discussing it in the big tent used by Wang.

Wang Ziyong can make Zhao Sheng, who is now a small soldier, also qualified to attend the meeting, not for anything else, but for Long Thirteen.

In today's rebels, there is an unwritten rule that in a larger battalion, when one of the leaders wants to go independent, he must be recognized by figures like Wang Ziyong and Zhang Mengcun.

Wang Ziyong is the Zuo Cheng of Wang Jiayin, the real boss of the Shaanxi thieves in the past, and naturally obtained this qualification, and Zhang Mengcun has this qualification because masters like Tuoyangkun, Dian Dengzi, Li Zicheng, and Zhang Xianzhong are all from his command.

And the scorpion block Tuoyangkun is simply because there are many people and horses, and his subordinates have maintained the scale of 1,000 horsemen since the incident in Shaanxi, and the number of people who can ride has been maintained at more than half, which is quite powerful.

As a result, the supreme leader of the seventeen families who were preparing to "go west" was naturally Wang Ziyong, and his deputies were Zhang Mengcun, Tuo Yangkun, and Zhao Sheng.

"He's a starvation"

Zhao Sheng is telling the origin of Long Thirteen, although he is very calm on the surface, but his heart has long been overturned, Long Thirteen is powerful, he naturally knows, but he doesn't know that it is so powerful.

"He claims to be a farmer near Qingjian County, but he is obviously literate in reading, but his writing is very ugly, and most of the strokes are wrong, but he can read through the few military books he carries below, and he can also break sentences."

"I also asked him at the time, according to him, because his family was poor, there was no way to learn art, so he could only learn secretly outside the academy, and he could only learn a rough idea, but this person was extremely intelligent, although his writing was ugly, and his words were very different from those of Confucianism, but he was very insightful."

"He rescued Zhao Jiu on the way, and naturally entered our camp, his understanding is extremely high, especially in martial arts, it can be described as a thousand miles in a day, when he broke up with me in Qinglongdu Town, his martial arts are probably second only to Hui Dengxiang of my battalion"

"He speaks authentic northern Shaanxi dialect, but if you distinguish carefully, there are still some differences, and I was ignorant before, and I don't know where the difference is."

"Now that I think about it, this person's northern Shaanxi dialect is mixed with some words that we don't have, but he knows everything we say."

"By the way, he had short hair when I first met him......"

At this time, the extremely fierce "scorpion block" Tuoyangkun suddenly interjected: "No wonder, it is estimated that it is Lu Zhishen, Wu Song and other characters, You Fang monk, who has not only stayed in the official army and the official government, but also studied, and suddenly fell ill after returning to his hometown from a different place, and then fell into starvation."

Wang Ziyong and Zhang Mengcun also nodded yes.

This is the insight of several of them, and if it goes beyond this knowledge, it is unexpected.

At this time, the most popular storytelling in the Ming Dynasty is "Water Margin", plus there are various dramas and speeches (the old people in the village who have read the book will tell it in the village after reading it, commonly known as talking about the ancients), and the characters in it have long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people.

At this time, there were very few entertainment activities, especially for ordinary farmers, military households, and artisan households.

Also, storytelling only flourished at the end of the Ming Dynasty, and it was only circulated locally in the past, and it was only at the end of the Ming Dynasty that there were people like Liu Jingting who were nationwide, and at this time, illiterate generals like Zuo Liangyu liked to invite storytellers like Liu Jingting into the camp to tell stories for them, and let them enjoy the treatment of their staff.

Tuoyangkun continued: "Since this person can resist Xu Dingchen and Zhang Zongheng alone without falling, and he has also taken down several county seats, he is obviously a person who knows the soldiers very well, and in this case, I will go west through Qinyuan County, and take advantage of the fact that the officials and troops are attracted to the vicinity of Huozhou, and hurry down the mountain, if we capture one or two county seats, we will be satisfied."

Tuo Yangkun was about to pick up the teacup and take a sip, when the corner of his eye caught a glimpse of Wang Ziyong, only to see that his eyes suddenly changed at the moment when his words just fell, and he quickly put down the teacup and said: "Of course, since they are separated from my thirty-six families, they must be recognized by the big boss......

Wang Ziyong sneered: "People have several cities in a row, and it is estimated that there are thousands of soldiers and horses under their command, and there are more than 100,000 Dingkou, and the money and food are even more innumerable, so why do you need our approval?" ”

When he said this, his afterglow also swept Zhao Sheng.

Zhao Sheng understood, and hurriedly said: "Big Boss, when you go down the mountain, you will immediately send someone to tell Long Thirteen about this matter, and let him personally visit the big leader."

Wang Ziyong hurriedly waved his hand, "Then where can it be, now that the war is tense, how is this possible, he just sent someone to contact us and others to cooperate with each other in the battle."

"Okay", Wang Ziyong continued, "Since we have decided on a big event, we must distinguish who the striker is and who is the queen, and this is the ...... we have to really solve."

"Big boss", Zhao Sheng said suddenly, "I suddenly thought of something, I don't know whether to talk about it or not"

Wang Ziyong said with a smile: "I'm waiting for my own brother, if there's anything I can't say, let's talk about it quickly."

Zhao Sheng nodded, "Big Chief, right now our army is in Qinzhou, and Qinzhou is You Shilu's defense area, he is the commander of the right guard of Zhending Mansion Shenwu, and the guards under his command are far more powerful than other places, but after all, they are not as good as the battalion soldiers, not to mention that there are too few cavalry under his command."

"Therefore, he can only hold on to the city, and can not come out to fight with us, from here there are two roads into the Fenhe Valley, one is naturally the one that has just been discussed through Qinyuan County, Yueyang County into the Jinnan Plain, as soon as you get out of the mountain, you will face Zhaocheng and Hongdong two counties."

"In addition, from here to the northwest, also through the mountain road, through Longzhouyu and Tuanbai Town, you can enter Qi County!"

The other three were shocked.

"Brother Zhao, can you elaborate on that?"

"That's nature. At present, the army of the imperial court is nothing more than in four places, Qinzhou, Liaozhou, Luzhou, Huozhou, and so on, as soon as Gao Yingxiang and others go south, Lu Xiangsheng of Qinzhou will immediately be attracted to it, and Liaozhou's fierce tiger will follow."

"And the largest group of people in Pingyang Prefecture, Ma Hong Chengchou, was all attracted to Huozhou by Long Thirteen, and Luzhou needless to say, it was set up to prevent us from entering there."

"So, think about it, south of Taiyuan City, north of Jiexiu County, there are no other officers and troops except Cao Wenzhao's army? According to the latest news, Cao Bianjiao's gang was defeated by Long Thirteen again, and now Cao Wenzhao's department is only left with the infantry army, and there are definitely not many cavalry! ”

"And", Zhang Mengcun seemed to understand, his face was full of excitement.

This non-mud was the first to follow Wang Jiayin, and he had not married a wife before becoming a thief, and after becoming a thief, he naturally became a groom every night, so that the power that was originally second only to Wang Jiayin became an ordinary thief, and his fierce generals Zhang Xianzhong, Li Zicheng, scorpion block, and lamp lit also left him.

For him, instead of wandering around and fighting, it is better to occupy a certain city and seek temporary stability, and for him, the enjoyment of this life since becoming a thief is worth it.

"Oh?"

At present, a few people, except for Wang Ziyong, the scorpion block Tuoyangkun and Zhao Sheng who lit the lamp were all subordinates who did not stick to the mud before, although Tuoyangkun and Zhao Sheng looked down on him, but they didn't dare to disrespect him in public, and only Wang Ziyong was transcendent.

Zhang Mengcun said with a smile: "The elites of King Cao Yan are all cavalry, and now that there are no cavalry, how can they compete with us?" I heard that Qi County and Pingyao County are both extremely rich counties, not to mention two, even if you only capture one, you can rest for a long time."

"Besides, although there is Hong Chengchou's army in the south, it is all blocked by Long Thirteen's family."

"Hahaha", this time Wang Ziyong, Tuoyangkun, and Zhao Sheng all laughed.

After a while, Wang Ziyong said: "Although this is the case, but there are unforeseen circumstances in the sky, if we and others rush to Longzhouyu, it will still alarm the officials and soldiers, you wait and see......"

"No poison, no husband!" , Tuo Yangkun said, "Although we are entangled in the righteous army, but there are also relatives and aliens, although we have seventeen families, but five families seem to have been together, and they don't seem to deal with the big boss in peacetime......"

He is talking about the "old Huihui" Ma Shouying and the "Ge Li Eye" He Yilong, as well as the "Zuo Jin King" He Jin, the "Reincarnation King" Liu Xiyao, and the "King of the Troubled Times" Lin Yangcheng Five Families (that is, the five camps of Ge Zuo in later generations, there are only two big ones at present).

"Some of the local rebels in Shanxi who are usually close to them, such as 'living grass' He Zonghan, 'villager' Liu Haoran, etc., add up to 2,000 horsemen and tens of thousands of dingkou"

"Let them enter the boundary of Hongdong County through Qinyuan County"

"Wonderful!"

Everyone applauded.